Diseases and Disorders

what is the purpose of the immune system?

• To protect the skin
• to produce bacteria
• to help the body fight diseases

True or False?
The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissue, and organs that work together to protect the body

• True
• False

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What is one of the ways that antibiotics work? 

• They can stop bacteria from reproducing
• They can stop viruses from reproducing
• They stop toxins from poisoning the tissues of hosts
• They engulf the pathogens

What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

• A bacterium
• A virus
• A fungus
• A protist

What pathogen causes athlete's foot??

• Virus
• Bacteria
• Fungus
• Parasite

A syndrome caused by HIV. It is when a person's immune system is too weak to fight off many infections

• AIDS
• SARS
• Ebola
• Zika

Transmitted contact with fluid like blood,  sharing needless and from the mom to the baby. Do not have  a cure.

• Malaria
• Rabies
• HIV
• Ebola

What viral diseases are transmitted by a mosquitoes bite.

• HIV
• Malaria
• Pneumonia
• Rabies

We need a vaccine (shot) every years to avoid it because the virus mutate or change.

• Flu
• Zika
• Ebola
• Pnemonia

What its the definition of a pathogen?

• organism or virus that causes disease 
• changes of sign our body give us about something wrong
• medications 
• measures that we can take to avoid get sick.